Train Hard - Stay Humble

BApk Sunday basic training 6/14

Event Details

Time: June 14, 2009 from 12pm to 3:30pm
Location: GWHS
Street: Anza @ 30th
City/Town: SF
Website or Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f…
Event Type: basic, parkour, beginners, training, bapk, bay area, san francisco
Organized By: Bay Area Parkour
Latest Activity: Dec 26, 2009

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Event Description

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Session description:
This training provides a healthy atmosphere for new practitioners to start parkour, and for everyone to advance in a safe way. This is achieved in several ways. Because safety is paramount, a positive example is set by the more experienced practitioners. This means you will always see warm ups, stretching, and slow progression of movement. It also means there will be no showing off, which leads to copy-cat behavior and subsequently injuries. Rather, people pass on knowledge humbly in a group effort to advance. While there may be several different skill levels represented at these sessions, everyone keeps a beginner mentality.

Another key aspect in this beginner atmosphere is the absence of media. There are no camera crews or reporters to get in the way or cause people to feel self-conscious. While individuals may bring cameras, they should politely ask before filming/shooting anyone other than themselves.

The perception that parkour practice is (and should be) fun, yet being "a discipline, not a game", is set from the beginning. While the atmosphere is relaxed and can be playful at times, horseplay is discouraged, and teasing, mocking, and cliquish behaviors are not tolerated...

Basic/beginners training provided, but ALL LEVELS present and WELCOME!

Minors and Newcomers pls. check this frequently asked questions about liability. =)

Ha! And it's free, in case you were wondering...

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Comment by Nick Romero on June 14, 2009 at 8:29am: Aero im in Portland,OR right now..be with you guys in spirit

Comment by Iliketovaultthings on June 14, 2009 at 7:28am: LOL bonez

Comment by Seng on June 14, 2009 at 3:57am: Who said anything about exercise? You know I'm not about that. I just want to play more games which happen to require (or are more fun with) continuous movement.

Comment by Bonez415 on June 14, 2009 at 1:32am: what's all this talk about excersising??? Makes my fat ass not sure about going...

Comment by Ryan Fulmer on June 13, 2009 at 2:57pm: so what's niko romeros excuse for bailing?

Comment by Ryan Fulmer on June 13, 2009 at 4:27am: They snooze they lose

Comment by SafeNSure on June 13, 2009 at 1:16am: ...didn't we have almost 30 peeps last Sunday?
What's up with this attendance?... Bored of GWHS?
With all the goodies that Messenger and Aero suggested?!?...
:)

Comment by Just Steve on June 10, 2009 at 8:01pm: I am still in Cape Cod, MA. Will be back on Tuesday. Looking forward to jamming with all of y'all again soon...follow the leader runs are my favorite part of GWHS training..

Comment by SafeNSure on June 10, 2009 at 5:15pm: ...agreed on running.
With the bottom line that once we have been confronted with our limits, tendencies and negative patterns of movement, a good way to progress to their improvement can be prolonging the usual (yet not for everybody...) 50-yds/5-obstacles sprints, to 50 yds between the 5 obstacles first, and then adding progressively obstacles...

Jogging a quarter mile is not a problem... but maybe we should jog a half mile, without the obstacles and compare the fatigue to the quarter/with.
Know (or at least discover) thyself... no?